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What Matters in Jane Austen
- Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved
- By: John Mullan
- Narrated by: Paul Collins
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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In What Matters in Jane Austen?, John Mullan shows that we can best appreciate Austen's brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction. Asking and answering some very specific questions about what goes on in her novels, he reveals the inner workings of their greatness. In 20 short chapters, each of which explores a question prompted by Austen’s novels, Mullan illuminates the themes that matter most in her beloved fiction.
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Austen wrote novels, not cryptic crosswords
- By Lauren Moss on 06-04-18
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What Matters in Jane Austen
- Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved
- Narrated by: Paul Collins
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 01-03-13
- Language: English
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The Forensic Records Society
- By: Magnus Mills
- Narrated by: Tim Bruce
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
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Two men with a passion for vinyl create a society for the appreciation of records. Their aim is simple: to elevate the art of listening by doing so in forensic detail. The society enjoys moderate success in the back room of their local pub, The Half Moon, with other enthusiasts drawn to the initial promise of the weekly gathering. However, as the club gains popularity, its founder's uncompromising dogma results in a schism within the movement, and soon a counter group forms.
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MILLS THRILLS.
- By WILLIAM GREENWAY on 22-09-17
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The Forensic Records Society
- Narrated by: Tim Bruce
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 06-04-17
- Language: English
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The Sound of Things Falling
- By: Juan Gabriel Vasquez
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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In the city of Bogot, Antonio Yammara reads an article about a hippo that had escaped from a derelict zoo once owned by legendary Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. The article transports Antonio back to when the war between Escobar’s Medelln cartel and government forces played out violently in Colombia’s streets and in the skies above. Back then, Antonio witnessed a friend’s murder, an event that haunts him still. As he investigates, he discovers the many ways in which his own life and his friend’s family have been shaped by his country’s recent violent past.
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Good historical content but shocking narration!
- By Amazon Customer on 28-03-16
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The Sound of Things Falling
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 29-03-13
- Language: English
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The Walworth Beauty
- By: Michèle Roberts
- Narrated by: Jenny Coverak
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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2011: When Madeleine loses her job as a lecturer, she decides to leave her riverside flat in cobbled Stew Lane, where history never feels far away, and move to Apricot Place. Yet here too, in this quiet Walworth cul-de-sac, she senses the past encroaching: a shifting in the atmosphere, a current of unseen life. 1851: and Joseph Benson has been employed by Henry Mayhew to help research his articles on the working classes. A family man with mouths to feed, Joseph is tasked with coaxing testimony from prostitutes.
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Wonderful story
- By Earthymama on 25-06-17
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The Walworth Beauty
- Narrated by: Jenny Coverak
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 06-04-17
- Language: English
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Forest Dark
- By: Nicole Krauss
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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From the best-selling, twice Orange Prize-short-listed, National Book Award-nominated author comes a vibrant tale of transformation: of a man in his later years and a woman novelist, each drawn to the Levant on a journey of self-discovery.
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An amazing book
- By Judith Chapman on 17-02-18
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Forest Dark
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 08-02-18
- Language: English
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A Thousand Paper Birds
- By: Tor Udall
- Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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An intimate portrait of five inextricably linked lives, spanning one calendar year at Kew Gardens - an exquisite, strange and beautiful debut for fans of Alice Sebold, Curtis Sittenfeld, Barbara Kingsolver and Audrey Niffenegger. After the sudden death of his wife, Audrey, Jonah sits on a bench in Kew Gardens, trying to reassemble the shattered pieces of his life. Chloe, shaven-headed and abrasive, finds solace in the origami she meticulously folds. But when she meets Jonah, her defences threaten to fall.
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Interesting story with poor production
- By C.B on 20-12-17
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A Thousand Paper Birds
- Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 15-06-17
- Language: English
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The Edge of Memory
- The Geology of Folk Tales and Climate Change
- By: Patrick Nunn
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Using Australia as a springboard, this book explores the science in folk history. It looks at ancient tales and traditions that may in all probability be rooted in scientifically verifiable fact and can be explored via geological evidence, such as the biblical flood. Nowadays the majority of our historical knowledge comes from the written word, but in The Edge of Memory, Patrick Nunn explores the largely untapped resource of the collective human memory that is held in stories. This important book explores the wider implications for our knowledge of how human society has developed through the millennia.
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Fascinating
- By Susan Harvey on 30-03-20
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The Edge of Memory
- The Geology of Folk Tales and Climate Change
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 23-08-18
- Language: English
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The Phantom Coach
- A Connoisseur's Collection of the Best Victorian Ghost Stories
- By: Michael Sims
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula’s Guest (vampires) and The Dead Witness (detectives) have been widely praised, has gathered twelve of the best stories about humanity’s oldest supernatural obsession. The Phantom Coach includes tales by a surprising and often legendary cast, including Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as lost gems by forgotten masters such as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and W. F. Harvey. Amelia B. Edwards’s chilling story gives the collection its title, while Ambrose Bierce ("The Moonlit Road"), Elizabeth Gaskell ("The Old Nurse’s Story"), and W. W. Jacobs ("The Monkey’s Paw") will turn you white as a sheet. With a skillful introduction to the genre and notes on each story by Sims, The Phantom Coach is a spectacular collection of ghostly Victorian thrills.
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BE WARNED intro before every story!
- By Matthew on 11-05-15
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The Phantom Coach
- A Connoisseur's Collection of the Best Victorian Ghost Stories
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 26-08-14
- Language: English
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This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You
- By: Jon McGregor
- Narrated by: Piers Gibbon
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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From the publication of his first Booker-nominated novel, at the age of 26, Jon McGregor's fiction has consistently been defined by lean poetic language, a keen sense of detail, and insightful characterization. Now, after publishing three novels, he's turning his considerable talent toward short fiction. The stories in this beautifully wrought collection explore a specific physical world and the people who inhabit it.
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This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You
- Narrated by: Piers Gibbon
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 05-03-13
- Language: English
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
- How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- By: William Egginton
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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In the early 17th century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a novel. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from studying too many novels of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That story, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history.
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
- How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-07-16
- Language: English
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Horace and Me
- Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet
- By: Harry Eyres
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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In Horace and Me: Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet, Eyres reexamines Horace’s life, legacy, and verse. With a light, lyrical touch (deployed in new, fresh versions of some of Horace’s most famous odes)and a keen critical eye, Eyres reveals a lively, relevant Horace, whose society—Rome at the dawn of the empire—is much more similar to our own than we might want to believe.
Eyres’s study is not only intriguing—he retranslates Horace’s most famous phrase as “taste the day”—but enlivening.
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Horace and Me
- Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 21-03-14
- Language: English
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Abdication
- By: Juliet Nicolson
- Narrated by: Carole Boyd
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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England, 1936. A beloved king is dead, and by year’s end, the charismatic new monarch will give up his throne for love. The world is on the brink of war. And in the tumultuous intervening months, three outsiders will find themselves embroiled in the hidden truths, undeclared loves, unspoken sympathies, and covert complicities of a glittering high society in the throes of upheaval.
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Lovely Listening, Eventually!
- By Rachel OK on 09-09-15
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Abdication
- Narrated by: Carole Boyd
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 30-10-14
- Language: English
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The Locomotive of War
- By: Peter Clarke
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
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A fresh and fascinating reappraisal of the first half of the 20th century from one of our foremost historians. 'War, comrades,' declared Trotsky, 'is a great locomotive of history.' He was thought to be acknowledging the opportunity the First World War had offered the Bolsheviks to seize power in Russia in 1917. Peter Clarke explores the crucial ways in which war can be seen as a prime mover of history in the 20th century through the eyes of five major figures.
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The Locomotive of War
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 17-08-17
- Language: English
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We Are Pirates
- By: Daniel Handler
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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A boat has gone missing. Goods have been stolen. There is blood in the water. It is the 21st century and a crew of pirates is terrorizing the San Francisco Bay. Phil is a husband, a father, a struggling radio producer, and the owner of a large condo with a view of the water. But he'd like to be a rebel and a fortune hunter. Gwen is his daughter. She's 14. She's a student, a swimmer, and a best friend. But she'd like to be an adventurer and an outlaw. Phil teams up with his young, attractive assistant.
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We Are Pirates
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-02-15
- Language: English
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Based on a True Story
- By: Delphine de Vigan
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and unable to begin writing her next book, Delphine meets L. L. is the kind of impeccable, sophisticated woman who fascinates Delphine - a woman with smooth hair and perfectly filed nails and a gift for saying the right thing. Delphine finds herself irresistibly drawn to her, their friendship growing as their meetings, notes and texts increase. But L. begins to dress like Delphine, and, in the face of Delphine's crippling inability to write, L. even offers to answer her emails, and their relationship rapidly intensifies.
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REVIEW
- By HA on 09-08-17
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Based on a True Story
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 06-04-17
- Language: English
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A Kid for Two Farthings
- By: Wolf Mankowitz
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
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A six-year-old boy in the British immigrant community of Whitechapel believes he has discovered a unicorn for sale at the market. Though it looks to most people like a white goat with a bump on its head, young Joe is certain it will make the dreams of his friends and neighbors come true - a reunion with his father in Africa, a steam press for a tailor shop, a ring for a girlfriend. Others may be skeptical of the unicorn’s magic, but with enough effort, Joe believes he can make it all real.
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A Kid for Two Farthings
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 24-02-13
- Language: English
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What Was Promised
- By: Tobias Hill
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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Clarence and Bernadette Malcolm have come five thousand miles in search of prosperity, but find the Mother Country not at all as has been promised them; Solly and Dora Lazarus, too, are strangers in a strange land, struggling to belong even as they try to make sense of their past; and Michael and Mary Lockhart take with both hands all that the world owes them, wherever it leads them, whatever the cost.
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What Was Promised
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 02-12-14
- Language: English
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Putney
- By: Sofka Zinovieff
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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Ralph Boyd’s first glimpse of Daphne will be etched on his mind forever. Dark, teasing, slippery as mercury, she seems neither boy nor girl but sprite - something elemental. An up-and-coming composer, Ralph is visiting the writer Edmund Greenslay at his riverside home in Putney to discuss a collaboration. In its colourful rooms and unruly garden, Ralph finds an intoxicating world of sensuous ease and bohemian abandon that captures the mood of the moment. Entranced, he knows he will return.
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Compelling and convincing - highly recommended
- By Sarah Rayner, author on 09-12-19
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Putney
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 12-07-18
- Language: English
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Nabokov in America
- On the Road to Lolita
- By: Robert Roper
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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The author of the immortal Lolita and Pale Fire, born to an eminent Russian family, conjures the apotheosis of the high modernist artist: cultured, refined - as European as they come. But Vladimir Nabokov, who came to America fleeing the Nazis, came to think of his time here as the richest of his life. Indeed, Nabokov was not only happiest here, but his best work flowed from his response to this exotic land.
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Nabokov in America
- On the Road to Lolita
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 09-07-15
- Language: English
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Insomniac City
- New York, Oliver, and Me
- By: Bill Hayes
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at 48 years old, having spent decades in San Francisco, he craved change. Grieving over the death of his partner, he quickly discovered the profound consolations of the city's incessant rhythms, the sight of the Empire State Building against the night sky, and New Yorkers themselves, kindred souls that Hayes, a lifelong insomniac, encountered on late-night strolls with his camera.
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Informative and moving in equal measure!
- By Patricia Ann Smith on 18-04-23
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Insomniac City
- New York, Oliver, and Me
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 14-02-17
- Language: English
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